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Sunday, April 13, 2025

A tragicomic tale of a pintxo never eaten (Blu Hotel, Basque Country)

 




📍 Location: Hotel Blue, Loiu (Basque Country)

🕐 Time: 10:25 PM
😋 Status: Slightly hungry, highly optimistic.

There I was — marching into the hotel café, heart set on one final pintxo to end my day. The front desk had said they closed at 10:30. I had five minutes to spare. All good, right?

...Wrong.

The pintxos were still there, lights on, staff present — and me, smiling with polite hunger. I asked if I could grab something and was met with the coldest “Sorry, we’re closing the register.”
No apology. No exception. Just a hard no, as they boxed up my potential snack right in front of me.

I get it. End of shift. But come on — it was 10:25, not midnight.

One little pintxo. One ounce of human kindness. That’s all it would’ve taken to turn my mini hunger crisis into a cute memory.

📣 Mini PSA: In hospitality, the smallest gestures go the longest way. A smile. A minute. A sandwich.
Last night, none of that happened. And honestly? I’m still mourning the pintxo that got away.

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